RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' COURT.

Evening Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1879, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' COURT.

This Dat. (Before Mr. T. A. Mansford, R.M.) DEUBKBMWEBB. Michael Hethermao, William Carroll, and Margaret Crossley were punished in the usual manner for this offence. AsaAULTitra a wife. A tailor named John Nixtn was charged by his wife, Margaret Nixon, with having assaulted Her on Saturday and Monday last. Mrs. Nixon was accompanied by firo little children. Mrs Nixon's evidence was to the effect that on Saturday evening prisoner went home in a state of drunkenness and broke a sugar basin over her head. On Monday be puled a quantity of hair out of her head. Dr. Gilloa gave evidence to the effect that the wounds inflicted with the basin on the woman's hesd were of a serious nature. Prisoner admitted bis guilt, but stated that he wa? too drunk to know what he was doing. He promised that if he were allowed to go he would at once sign the pledge. Mrs. Nixon said prisoner was a good husb*nd and father when he did not drink. She hoped his Worship would deal leniently with the prisoner, because she and her five children were dependent on him for support. His Worship said that the prisoner hid committed two very brutal as^au to, and he regretted the law did not allow him to pass a more aavtre sentence than be was about to do. He thought that persons who behaved as the prisoner had done should be flogged with the " cat." • He felt bound to inflict a severe punishment on the prisaner, even if his family had to be supported by the State while he was in gaol Fur the assault committed on Saturday prisoner would have to go to gaol for two months, with hard labor, and for the offence committed on Monday he i was bound over iv his own recognisance of £100, and ordered to find two sureties of £50 each that he would keep the peace for 12 months, liifa was all the busii ess.